> "You'd have to evaluate safety and attractiveness algorithmically"
OKCupid already does this (the attractiveness part), and I have to say, they do it startlingly well. Attractiveness is crowdsourced, and this is present even in the default (non-blind) experience. Ever wonder what that "Special Blend" default search results sort option is all about? It's actually weighted by the user and your own attractiveness.
That's very interesting. I had been wondering whether they were hiding matches from me for the 'attractiveness' matching; empirically it seemed unlikely.
Are you saying that, if I never use 'Special Blend', I am unaffected by the attractiveness-matching system?
People have done this, and one guy actually documented the experience. I forgot the reference, but the idea was to appear more picky and popular by getting lots of messages and not responding, in order to get the "responds very selectively" red light. The effect turned out to be a lot more views and messages.
This doesn't consider the algorithmic effect of doing this, though. Although it is probably very achievable.
OKCupid already does this (the attractiveness part), and I have to say, they do it startlingly well. Attractiveness is crowdsourced, and this is present even in the default (non-blind) experience. Ever wonder what that "Special Blend" default search results sort option is all about? It's actually weighted by the user and your own attractiveness.